I Am Alive is a Ubisoft downloadable title that was first shown at E3 2008 and we’ve barely heard a thing since then, until earlier today an official (but unreleased) trailer was leaked. For those who haven’t heard of the game, I Am Alive sets you as a man named Adam Collins who is trapped in Chicago after a massive earthquake has destroyed the city and seperated it from the mainland.
Ubisoft’s recent controversy over the intrusive DRM in the recently released From Dust on the PC has come to a conclusion with the announcement that they will be removing the much hated DRM system.
If there’s anything I’ve noticed in PC gaming over the last decade, its the steady decline of space games. While adventure games underwent a similar decline in popularity, they’ve made a big comeback thanks to companies like Telltale bringing the joys of adventure gaming back to modern gamers. Unfortunately space games haven’t quite had a similiar resurgence, but the guys at Minmax Games are hoping to bring the joys of space games back with their new indie title Space Pirates and Zombies.
Since Portal 2 was released, Valve has said that there will be free DLC, both single player and co-op, released in the Summer. Summer is nearly over, now, and Valve has been quiet on any details or firm release dates. That changed at Gamescom, however, and Kotaku has confirmed with Valve that the free DLC will be coming in mid-September.
Electronic Arts has decided to put a limit on how many copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic can be initially sold. They say this is to offset any server overload issues that normally plague the launches of MMOs. The limit will be placed on both retail and digital copies of the game to ensure server stability when it goes live later this year.
Rage,
set to release in October, will be the first game powered by the brand
new graphics engine called id Tech 5. If you’ve seen any of the
trailers you know this game looks spectacular. The engine has been
designed to run Rage at 60 FPS and optimized to perform well
across all platforms. The engine is very impressive as id Software’s
goal was to create unique landscapes with amazing textures. The new MegaTexturing
technology allows for larger textures to be used so that artists don’t
have to rely on tricks to cover up the repetition of using smaller
textures for broad landscapes. If you haven’t been following Rage, allow me to bring you up to speed.
Bioware
showed off their latest demo of Mass Effect 3 at Gamescon this week.
The trailer, which is titled “Squad Leader,” shows off the squad
commands and some of the new combat tweaks that have been introduced to
the game. Shepard can now perform a combat roll to maneuver quickly
between points of cover and has a new omni-blade melee attack to
effectively dispatch his opponents at close range.
